As I type this, my stomach hurts but I’m feeling rather relaxed, probably because I managed to lift quite a bit of work off my shoulders.

I watched Inception yesterday and I’m glad it was a movie that set me thinking – about how amazing (yet scary) it is that we, humans, can dream of things so real, and “bond” with other people virtually. It really hit me at the end when the people woke up from their dream where they had adventures together, built up strong relationships and learnt about each other. When they woke up, they suddenly distanced themselves from each other, as if nothing much had happened.

Are humans able to separate dreams from reality (assuming I’m currently living in reality)? I remember there was once, many years ago, I had a bad dream (commonly known as a nightmare) about a particular lady who had just stepped into church to help out with the music ministry. I had such a bad fright that the following Saturday when I had to see her again, I nearly couldn’t face going to church. I was dreading it and when I saw her, I’d quickly turn away to avoid looking. This continued for some time, and it only faded off after the lady finished serving the church (thankfully, not too long after the dream). I knew what I dreamt was obviously just a dream, but it shook me so much that it affected my reality.

Somehow, differentiating dreams from reality seems to improve with experience. Nowadays, I still have scary dreams that I remember, but much less than when I was younger. Thank God for that – otherwise I’d have a full store of nightmares to scare myself with.

Apart from nightmares, I’ve also had dreams where I interact with people I know (or didn’t expect to know so well). Those types of dreams are harder to remember, but I do remember fragments of them. When I awake from those dreams, sometimes I do get confused. Like I don’t know if I actually told that person what I think I told them – was it just in my dreams, or reality? And, if everyone has such dream-bonding experiences, does it help improve social relationships? Like somehow, we go through adventures with other people that help us “get to know them” better. Through these interactions, we feel more familiar with them, and this somehow aids in developing relationships among people we are connected to?

Sorry, please ignore my post if it seems like rubbish. I don’t know what got into me…